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40 Years On, Mount Kisco Child Care Center Serves Working Families
Nov 13 2013 // Fragile. At risk. Low income. Recent immigrant. These terms describe some of the families whose children attend Mount Kisco Child Care Center in the northern suburbs of New York City. But another term that describes these...
Doctor Training Questioned in Wake of Robotic-Surgery Deaths, Injuries
Nov 11 2013 // A rising number of reports about deaths, injuries and malfunctions linked to the robotic surgery system made by Intuitive Surgical Inc. may pressure hospitals to bolster training for doctors using the $1.5 million...
Industries Confront Louisiana’s Skilled Labor Gap
Nov 6 2013 // A Harahan manufacturing company has had to recruit outside Louisiana for skilled trade workers. The Laitram Corp. isn’t alone in its difficulty finding trained workers for such jobs as electricians and...
PLUS Conference: Global Risks, Governance and Hypocrisy
Nov 5 2013 // America’s European allies are being hypocritical in their complaints about the U.S. spying on them because they all have their own surveillance programs, according to two former top officials in the Clinton...
Talent War Continues: XL Hires AIG’s Miller to Oversee Global P/C Claims
Nov 4 2013 // XL Group Plc, the insurer led by Chief Executive Officer Mike McGavick, hired David Miller as senior vice president and head of claims for international property/casualty coverage. Miller joins from American International...
How to Motivate and Inspire Your Employees: Part 2
Oct 28 2013 // This post is part of a series on insurance marketing and training sponsored by Astonish. In the first part of this series, we looked at the importance of setting goals when it comes to motivating your employees. Another,...
Hard Work Is Not the Only Key to Producer Success
Oct 21 2013 // Insurance sales success can be like a game of tennis. Many summers ago I fell in love with the game of tennis. For the next six years, I played every day possible. One of my limitations was that living in Colorado, winter...
Recruiting and Retention in the New Economy
Oct 21 2013 // We made it! We survived the economic instability of the past few years and have more than rebounded. The insurance industry is well ahead of the greater economy; and the picture painted by our labor market is much...
2nd Worker Dies At 49ers Stadium Construction Site In California
Oct 16 2013 // All work has stopped at the new $1.2 billion San Francisco 49ers showcase stadium while police, firefighters and state workplace safety officials investigate a second deadly workplace accident there in less than four...
For-Profit College Company Sued By California
Oct 15 2013 // California’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing a for-profit college company of misrepresenting job placement rates, false advertising and other deceptive practices to lure low-income residents to take out...
Hylant Names Dills Executive VP of Talent Management
Oct 11 2013 // Hylant, one of the nation’s largest privately owned insurance brokerage firms, appointed Matthew Dills as executive vice president of talent management. Dills is in charge of employee engagement, recruiting,...
Missteps in Employee Hiring Costly for Agencies: MarshBerry
Oct 7 2013 // For most lines of insurance business, commission income is growing, and most insurance agents and brokers expect profits to be similar or better in 2013 compared to 2012. That’s according to the 28th Annual Market...
Stakeholders to TDI: Not So Fast on Marketplace Navigator Rules
Oct 4 2013 // State lawmakers and representatives from health insurance marketplace navigator organizations are questioning both the timing of an effort by Texas regulators to craft rules regarding navigators and the need for rules that...
What to Know About NARAB or National Producer Licensing: Bissett of Big ‘I’
Oct 3 2013 // If and when the federal government resumes operations, a multistate producer licensing reform bill long pushed by the country’s insurance agent lobby could be among the few bipartisan pieces of business Congress...
Obamacare Day 1: Exchanges Struggled With High Demand; Fixes Promised
Oct 1 2013 // The Obamacare insurance exchanges struggled to handle a flood of consumer interest that closed the U.S. website for much of the day, and caused start up delays for most of the marketplaces run by the states. In New York,...
West Virginia Higher Ed Panel to Vote on Requiring Emergency Plans
Oct 1 2013 // West Virginia higher education officials are considering a campus safety rule that establishes policies and procedures addressing four-year institutions’ planning and response to natural disasters, shootings or other...
Webinar: 75% of U.S. Workers Say Employer Unprepared for Disaster
Sep 25 2013 // Driving home the notion that most U.S. employees believe their employers aren’t prepared for a disaster or a major crisis may be one of the best way to get people to take notice that September is National...
Fees Charged to Insurance Volunteers in Wisconsin Criticized
Sep 23 2013 // Volunteers who want to help people decipher the new health insurance marketplace when it comes online Oct. 1 must pay for a background check and exam fee as required by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s administration,...
Insurance Good Training Ground for Political Leadership
Sep 23 2013 // When it comes to current or former occupations of state and federal lawmakers, that of insurance producer is not one of the most commonly listed, but perhaps it should be. The variety of skills one necessarily develops...
Texas Governor, State Senator Square Off on Health Exchange Navigator Rules
Sep 19 2013 // Texas’ top insurance regulator has found herself in the midst of a battle over rules that govern those who will provide information to consumers about the health insurance exchanges that are a part of the U.S....
